Improvement in hydrocarbon-vapor generator and burner and gas-generator



. 0. HOLLAND. Hydrocarbon Vapor Generator and Burner, and I A*Gas-Generator.

v No. 203,830. Patented May 21,1878.

OCOCQUW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES HOLLAND, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB TO PARK HOLLAND,

O13: SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HYDROCARBON-VAPUR GENERATOR AND BURNER AND GAS-GENERATOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,830, dated May21,1878; application filed April 3, 1878. 1

-the' city of Chicago, Cook county, State of Illinois, have invented newand useful Improvements in Hydrocarbon-Vapor Generator and Burner andGas-Generator, of which the following is a full description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a bottomView; Fig. 2, a side View, and Fig. 3 an end View.

The object of this invention is to improve the construction andoperation of hydrocarbon or oxyhydrocarbon burners and gas-generatorswhich operate by the combustion of the gases generated in them, and alsogenerate an additional quantity of gas for further or future use; andits nature consists in forming a narrow or thin border around andforming a part of the retort, so as to become more highly heated thanthe body thereof, thereby partly performing the office of a surroundingpipe; and in the combinations of the pipes and burner or jet therewith.

In the drawings, A represents the retort, which is divided into threeseparate compartments in its interior, similar to those shown in myPatent No. 191,144; B, a circular convex portion for spreading theflame; a, the burner or jet from which the gases or vapors forming theflame issue; b, the gas or vapor pipe leading from the oil-compartmentof the retort to the burner a; c, a coupling or union connecting thewater-gas pipe with the pipe I) cl, water-gas pipe; 0 f, pipes leadingfrom the gas-generating compartment to a gasometer or other suitablegas-holder; o 0, oilpipes, and w water-pipe.

The retort A is made of cast-iron or other suitable metal, and isdivided into three separate longitudinal compartments in the ordinarymanner. Its outer edges or boundaries g are made thin, so that they maybecome highly heated when in operation, and roast the gases or vapors,as well as assist in their formation. The pipes o o are connected, bysuitable extensions, with an oil-reservoir located either within orwithout the building, and the waterpipe w is connected with aWater-service pipe,

or with a water tank or reservoir, and" the pipes w o 0 are filled orpartly filled witlf wire cloth or gauze rolled and inserted, as hown, atthe pipe 0, which is partly in section, for

regulating the quantity or flow of material.

Other means of regulation may be adopted for regulating the supply; butthe means shown are preferred, as these pipes, when near the retort, arein contact with the flame, and the wire filling furnishes additionalheatingsurface. In the form here shown the exitpipes are on the sameplane as the inlet-pipes. The pipe 1) leads from the oil-compartmentdirect to the burner a, and the pipe (1, leading from thewater-compartment, is let into the pipe I; by the coupling or union 0.Instead of this coupling a, which intersects at right angles, a V orbranch coupling may be used in its place, so as to bring the twocurrents together with an equal flow. The oil-pipe 0 leads to a separatecompartment, and the vapor there generated is roasted into a permanentgas by the thin edge g connected therewith and pipes e f, which arereached and heated by the flame.

The gas so formed is conducted off from the pipe f to a suitablegas-holder, from which it is distributed off for lighting purposes, orfor heating an ordinary gasstove. When the burner and generator are inplace and properly connected the pipe-support 00 will be unnecessary,and may be omitted.

It will be seen that in this form the two streams of oil-gas andsuperheated steam are united behind the burner, so that but one flame isformed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The retort A, having the enlarged body flaring outward and upward to aborder of less diameter, substantially as shown, for the purposedescribed.

CHARLES HOLLAND. WVitnesses:

L. L. BOND, O. W. BOND.

